The thing I am most worried about with regard to the running game: if the coach has so little confidence in it that, given third and 1 or 4th and 1, he regularly runs 5 WR sets.
"Wade" wrote:
Other teams do that quite often as well. It is not that unusual.
"Greg C." wrote:
And I'd be bothered if I were a fan of the other team as well.
I understand it as an occasional call. It smacks a bit of "finesse" philosophy, but I get that.
What I don't get is doing it over and over.
A top team should be able to run with success on 3rd or 4th and short. If it *regularly* goes empty backfield on clear "running downs", that says a lack of confidence in the running game to me.
If I were a DC and a team kept doing it on me, I'd start ignoring the run.
"Wade" wrote: